I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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